Emblemata V.C. Andreae Alciati Mediolanensis iurisconsulti : cum facili & compendiosa explicatione, qua obscura illustrantur, dubiaq́ue omnia soluuntur, /

Includes index.Initials; tail-piece.Device of the Plantin press on t.p. and on p. [7] (second group), with motto: Labore et constantia.Final p. is blank.Signatures: A-Z⁸, a-b⁸.211 emblems, numbered I-CCXI, including the tree series (nos. CXCVIII-CCXI); no. LXII without woodcut device.The letter A, occurring on some of the woodcuts, has occasioned different conjectures. cf. Green, H. Andrea Alciati and his books of emblems, London, 1872, p. 85-87; also, G. K. Nagler (Monogrammisten, Munich, 1858, v.1, p. 25, no. 53) who assumes that the letter might refer to the draughtsman of the cuts, and even mentions Alciati himself as the possible artist.Running title: Andreae Alciati emblemata.Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries,Green, H. Alciati,Mode of access: Internet